Decreases certain amounts of payments wrongfully received that would trigger higher degrees of the crime of health care fraud. / Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: CODES

Relates to expiration and renewal provisions of certain firearms licenses; shortens length of certification in NYC from three years to two; Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk from five to two and all other places in the state from six to two years. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: CODES

Expands the geographical area of employment of university police officers. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Relates to definitions of employees eligible for funeral or bereavement leave. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: CODES

Provides that conviction of assault on a social services worker which prevents him or her from performing a lawful duty is a felony. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CODES

Relates to off-premises beer and wine products sales in premises licensed for on-premises consumption. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: CODES

Prohibits the release on parole for persons convicted for the second time of a class B violent felony offense. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: CODES

Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the intentional causing of physical injury to a process server to obstruct from performing his or her lawful duty, or as retaliation against the process server for performing his or her lawful duty. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CODES

Exempts crimes of making graffiti and possession of graffiti instruments from youthful offender procedure after defendant is found guilty of such a charge. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: CODES

Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of a police officer or peace officer; provides for such an offense to be a class E felony. / Sponsor: GRIFFO Committee: CODES

Expands the definition of "victim" for purposes of making statements at sentencing of defendant to allow more than one family member to speak; provides that members of a victims family includes parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, siblings, aunts and uncles. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: CODES

Designates Yates county court security officers and animal control officers as peace officers. / Sponsor: O'MARA Committee: CODES

Makes identity theft against a person age sixty-five or older a class D felony. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: CODES

Creates a social host law prohibiting the permitting of the consumption of alcoholic beverages by persons under the age of twenty-one years; provides that no person who is over the age of twenty-one years who owns, rents or controls a private residence shall permit the consumption of alcoholic beverages by any person under the age of twenty-one years who is present at any party, gathering or event on the premises of such person; defines "party, gathering or event" and "permit". / Sponsor: FUSCHILLO Committee: CODES

Makes the criminal penalty for persons who communicate a bomb threat to that for a class E felony rather than a class A misdemeanor. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: CODES

Establishes the crime of criminal sale of an internet domain name to a terrorist group or organization listed by the office of homeland security as posing a terrorist threat, a class A misdemeanor. / Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee: CODES

Permits the sealing of records of certain nonviolent misdemeanor or non-sexual misdemeanor criminal offenses; defines the term "eligible misdemeanor"; excludes certain misdemeanor offenses as eligible misdemeanors for the purposes of conditional sealing; lists certain eligibility requirements for sealing; provides an order granting sealing under this section shall restore the individual concerned, in the contemplation of the laws, to the status such individual occupied before the arrest or institution of criminal proceedings for the crime that was the subject of the sealing. / Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: CODES

Relates to the issuance of arrest warrants and appearance tickets upon a youth; provides for the police officer to immediately notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the care of such youth with whom the youth is domiciled that the youth has been arrested; provides further that the police officer need not notify the parent or other person legally responsible when such youth is not also a juvenile offender and the notification would endanger the health and safety of such youth. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: CODES

Establishes the same protection afforded to peace officers, police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical professionals to members of auxiliary police programs, traffic enforcement agents or public officers or public employees performing school safety or security duties. / Sponsor: ADAMS Committee: CODES

Provides enhanced sentencing for the offenses of criminal possession of a weapon and criminal sale of a firearm where such offenses occur at the residence of a child under age of fourteen. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES